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Pretty much any single ranking is going to be fairly meaningless for a prospective student, given the large differences between various faculties at most universities, except at a very coarse level (e.g. universities near the top are probably a good bet generally, and those near the bottom are to be considered with caution). However that doesn't really add anything that isn't already pretty obvious to most people.

At best I suppose you could think of it as a kind of pat on the back for universities which do a good job generally. Give them a bit of kudos and publicity etc. That doesn't really do that much for the top-tier schools, but it might give some under-appreciated schools welcome attention.
>>Or, that the business people shouldn't be paid as much as the technical guys?

The other way. Technical guys must be paid what they deserve.

I don't know why you think I'm frustrated. And if you feel things are good as they are in India, then I rest my case.

I have no intentions of immigrating to US. Especially when there is so much growth in India and I have so much to benefit from, besides I don't feel coming to US alone will magically transform my career and make a billionaire. If working hard is what it takes to be successful, I might very well do it here rather than the US. Also immigrating to US means spending a long process to get green card and citizenship which translates to >10 years dependency on corporate sponsorship. And there is little logic in living hand to mouth just because you can get a citizen ship there, while you can have it all here now.

Besides India is awesome these days. I see nothing that I'm missing by not being in the US. Travel for a visit is a different thing, but setting down in US is something I don't feel is worth at this time.

But I respect your decisions. And I'm sure you have your own reasons. And I wish you all the very best.
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>> Elon Musk is one of the most under appreciated entrepreneurs of our time.

I'm sure his time will come (already starting to). He's built and talked, but other than Paypal the world hasn't yet in a huge way reaped the benefits of his labor. With Tesla and SpaceX both (somewhat recently/soon) reaching a point of having products in heavy use, it'll come soon I'm sure.

Though maybe he should have some reward for attempting to tackle the big problems as well.
I think he was trying to emphasize that managerial work was the only thing perceived as "smart".
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Romney then name-dropped a few beneficiaries including the bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra and Tesla Motors, the car maker that has gotten a $465 million loan from the Department of Energy, which it is paying off.

Romney then quipped that “One of my friends said, “You don’t pick the winners and losers. You pick the losers.”

--(1) They defaulted on a fed subsidized loan[#]; (2) They make $90k cars for rich people; (3) US deficit=$1Trillion, US Debt = $16.X Trillion. (4) Item (3) is spread pro-rata amongst the poor people who can't afford Teslas. Their pro-rata share of the debt is a nice chunk of their mortage payments (5) SV is flooded with cash. Tesla does not need US handouts, subsidized loans and other craptrap. If the biz/product is a winner it will do fine.

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[#] Technical.
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For me, it had a direct negative effect. My school (University of Western Australia - 190) prides itself on being one of the country's better schools. When it's rankings started to slip, it took active steps to try and improve them - a significant part being a higher focus on research, rather than undergraduate teaching (the list rewards academic achievement more highly than graduate satisfaction). The result of this, was the bottom 1/3 of my faculty (Mechanical/Chemical engineering), determined by research performance being fired. Some of these were awful, lazy teachers, sure, but others were that special kind of lecturer who resonates really well with students but produces limited academic work. In addition, those professors with tenure (often stereotyped as being lazy teachers) were not let go, compounding the problem.
Yeah, Apple and iTunes are no trouble at all if you can maintain a valid payment method in one country. Amazon is very similar, I think. I've had no trouble buying digital media with a US account while living in Europe.

Almost everyone else uses geocoding to enforce your location, which is infuriating. I really don't understand why, if I have a completely valid US credit card and billing address, you refuse to sell me things that are available in the US. If Amazon.com will sell me downloadable games without complaint, why is Steam so stringent about checking my current location?
No doubt - there's cheats everywhere... but I don't think its near the scale of India.
>>Wouldn't technical work be the "smart" work?

Its not very financially rewarding. And when you see the guy next to you making big bucks by just asking for status updates, forwarding mails and changing cells on excel sheets. You begin to wonder if its worth it.
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This is more 'dissecting the landing page'. Paul's comment there was by far the most interesting part.

I was looking for more of a how people got to the site etc.. but i suppose it was mostly just [YC] > [HN/Reddit] > [TechCrunch] > [Twitter].
Honestly it's nothing new and will only get worse. That's why I'm always very skeptical of cloud systems, inter linking of accounts, and having so much of your digital life under one company's roof. What if you want to move country? What if you upload a piece of data innocently that is deemed to breach ToS? What if the company simply bans your account without telling you why? What if they close down? There are a million reason, which is why we need more small, decentralized solutions, and less services that try to integrate everything under the sun like Microsoft, Google, Apple and Facebook have been doing.
Scale of population in India magnifies this problem. Both good and bad things look bigger.
Ok, may I know the source of this scale you are talking about? Statistics without proper references don't cut much ice.
Yes, the title: Mitt Romney Calls Tesla a 'Loser' is just Factually wrong.[1]

He may (or may not) have implied it. But then again, this is in they eye of the beholder.

Excluding the may, not, and implied are material defects, for example.

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How come there isn't a single university in India listed?
Thumbs up to any ranking that has my alma mater above NYU, Brown, Peking University, BU, USC, Purdue and Monash - but I don't know how much most employers would agree.
I still can't understand what are you trying to make us all believe with this article and your comments? That you are a saint because you didn't go the USA and everyone else who went there is a cheat?
So is the term Script Kiddies? People who know how to use Google?
One could argue that Sublime Text or JEdit could be an option, too.
Some warning on these changes would have been nice.

I found out the hard way today that these changes break a lot of existing deploy scripts.
The sorry state of education is a distraction, the real problem is something else. Most students in India are not given much of a choice when it comes to choosing their career path. Most of the students are forced to be doctors, engineers or civil servants. Very few end up being artists, singers, sports-person... anything which is not a "real" job.

The result being that a host of colleges have sprung up to meet this demand. These colleges are setup with the sole aim of making money. Education is just a side effect. Students get no academic freedom and have no space to learn outside of a very narrowly defined "syllabus".

The worse problem is that most students who end up in Engineering Colleges have absolutely no interest in becoming engineers. They do manage to somehow graduate and get an "IT job". They end up being mediocre engineers and at the earliest opportunity try to find a way out. These poor souls end up giving a bad name to Indian Engineers.

What about those who want to be engineers because they like to build things and love to tinker around? The hacker types? Getting into an engineering college requires a lot of money. If and when they do get into an engineering college it's a poor quality one. They are forced to spend time only on mugging up equations and theorems. They get no space to build circuits of their own or blow up stuff for the heck of it. Assignments are a joke, they require no application of thought and all that's required is merely copying stuff from the text book onto paper. The poor dispirted hackers end up languishing in low paying jobs or find an escape route by moving out of the country where their talents are recognised.

tl;dr : Quality suffers when quantity increases beyond limit.
Fortunately, for these group of students the benefit is short lived and mainly on paper. They have better grades compared to their honest peers because of the complicity from professors (it is trivial to figure out whether someone has done the project or outsourced it, but they don't care).

But when it comes around to getting a job, they are the ones who usually struggle. I've seen so many students with average grades ultimately be recruited for the best jobs available on the market because they preferred to spend their time on TopCoder instead of gaming the system.

In some ways, I feel sorry for them. Most of them do it due to the herd mentality, everyone is outsourcing their projects so they must outsource their projects too. Clearly, this doesn't work out very in the long term and what they gain by taking the easy way out, they lose in terms of denying themselves the opportunity to gain some practical experience.
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this is great, but not sure it's NEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIRspO7zVF8
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> Taxing something in proportion to its external costs isn't picking a loser, it's levelling the playing field

Clever rhetorical trick.

> BTW, you've failed to substantiate your claim that the market fails to pick efficient winners and losers. How would you even define "efficient" without appealing to the marketplace?

It's not a claim that requires substantiation, it's common knowledge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure#Externalities
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>>I know a guy who was quite dedicated with his project and though he didn't get good marks

Exactly my point. I am happy that he got what he deserved. But you can imagine this is not likely to work at scale.

There are many places where you won't even be shortlisted for the interview if you don't have good marks.
It sounds like education could be even more disrupted there than here?
Yeah, but the government itself is borrowing money at absurdly low interest rates right now. If you agree with the notion that government intervention to get an edge in strategic industries can be a good idea, it looks like a good loan at whatever rate they got (assuming it's higher than a 1/8 of a percent, the gov't turns a profit, too).
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> The time will come when batteries are cheap and powerful enough that you could buy an electric car for $10k, but that time is not now...

Don't tell these companies, because they sell $10k electric cars right now:

http://www.getkurrent.com/

http://www.flybo.cn/

http://www.polaris.com/en-us/gem-electric-car/Pages/Home.asp...

I wouldn't want to drive any of them. I wouldn't want to drive ANY $10k car. But you do not get to pretend "that time is not now."
You made me twitch from cumulative LaTeX PTSD.

"Just write and pay attention to content, not formatting," has led to staring at the clock, wondering how 5am came around so quickly more nights than I would care to admit.

God forbid you use Sweave.

I'm looking back 22 years and getting the twitch again. All that time I saved not playing with fonts, kerning, margins, and line height has been burned aligning figures or tables or yes, trying to get that frickin' float on a page at least vaguely proximal to its reference.
Basically, my argument is that we are going to continue to pollute the air for some time to come (the automobile will not disappear overnight). Natural gas is much cleaner, but even if it were crude oil under our soil, wouldn't it be better to use our own rather than another country's? The actual process of extracting any kind of oil/gas is not that environmentally hazardous, unless of course there is a spill.
Actually a friend of mine joking said- In India, we call our least of area of incompetence as our passion. Which actually happens to be very true.
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Interesting. I saw the founders at ycombinator's Work for a Startup day, where a bunch of YC companies basically pitched their companies, but to engineers instead of investors. The rap genius guys were there, but with handmade signs, and didn't present. Honestly, at the time I thought they had snuck in or something. They were hustling people all night trying to convince them to come work for them; gotta respect the dedication.
1. How much does "project making" pay compared to other available software jobs?

2. Are those projects more fun than other jobs?

3. Subvert the whole system: Create a project-making company. Keep good records. Refer your employees to employers, on the basis of their solid project portfolios. Basically, project-making companies thus displace the universities as the place where real learning happens and is proven.

4. Thank you to all the Indians posting here today. I feel like I am reading hackernews.in, and it's nice to get a vacation from Silicon Valley :-)
That's difficult to say, because government investments mostly go into infrastructure and enablement policies, not ventures. But let's give it a shot.

USA: Green energy investments, of which some companies have turned out to be outright fraudulent.

China: Massive infrastructure and housing overspending and bubble, with much shoddy construction. Housing and construction companies everywhere benefiting from the money only contributing to a high-probability disaster ending.

Most Olympics-hosting nations, depending on what you perceive to be an acceptable measure of return.
My university had similarly bad security practices. Although not accessible as plain text, the social security number was used when you wanted to change personal information.

For example to reset your university email account you needed the last three digits of the ssn and your date of birth. In my case, the school somehow never got my ssn so my ssn in this case was just "0". So theoretically if anyone wanted to change my password they just needed to use "yyyymmdd0" to access it.
I guess the letter campaign was the slower path to getting Java on iOS.
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Oh come on... Let me make you one in HTML4.01! Or HTML5! Or Javascript!

Pixel by pixel... seriously.
w00t. Damn it, guys, i posted this site when i first released it two weeks ago, and noone cared. :)
When did I say that? I am pointing to a section of people who I felt perform that way. And I never said 'YOU' did that.

I don't know if you immigrated to the US. But if you did, I know you have your own reasons. If you are happy about it, stand by it. Other wise why should you have any issues at all?
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NIST, like many government agencies, has done good things. It's just that they have not done them cost-effectively. Real businesses have to operate responsibly, fear going bankrupt, meet market demands, and so forth. That said, I would actually gladly pour money into NIST over other government transactions (i.e. bank bailouts).
You didn't read far enough ... clocking in at #235 - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Well, he seems to address this directly where he states:

"We did suggest that holding nine months worth of principal payments in advance in a reserved account was a bit extreme and, moreover, was never part of our original loan agreement. The DOE agreed and reduced the advance payment reserve account to six months."

You saying

"keep certain financial ratios up to certain levels, and tesla failed to do that. As a result, tesla asked the government to change the terms"

...doesn't seem to add to or contradict his statements.

So unless you can clarify, your statement that "that is the full story ... elon was definitely not giving you all relevant info." seems inaccurate.
Your argument was for reducing environmental regulation.
@damian2000,
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>>Fortunately, for these group of students the benefit is short lived and mainly on paper.

Sorry these are precisely the kind of guys who end up being mid level managers in large corporates.

>>But when it comes around to getting a job, they are the ones who usually struggle.

Interview in India are a joke. Body shops pick up people for marks, and familiarity with objective questions roaming around on the internet.
Ask HN: Is that true startups on small business space are too crowded?
Why ask: saw lots of big name in this space, groupon, living social, google, square, even apple ... and some "smart" products.

However: the fact is most of the SMBs are still struggling a lot on their business.

Why this happens, does it mean it need more innovation to jump in?

Or they just can't leverage the power of technology?
Will probably get downvoted, but my first thought when reading the headline was, "Why would Romney call Nikola Tesla a loser, posthumously? Is it because Edison had been able to turn his inventions into economic successes, while Tesla died penniless? Not very nice of him to add insult to injury."
After I clicked it, at first I wondered why there is a picture of a car on top of the article. And then I realized what an idiot I am.
Yes this is annoying but not on the level of Microsoft. Some apps are only available in the U.S. App Store. If you switch stores to say, New Zealand then you lose access to those apps. But iTunes does allow you to easily change stores and download your U.S. only apps provided you still have a valid U.S. payment method and address. You can then change stores again but your locally downloaded apps remain. It's inconvenient and messy.
Was the startup you launched on the side profitable? Were you able to draw any income from it?
small ... equity

I think the expectation of potential co-founders is that they will get a large chunk of equity. Maybe you'll have more luck if you up the equity offer.
The discussions on HN about the STEM shortage are laughable.

When I see the average HN-er complain in the thread on the recent (Latimes?) article which complained about how Liberal Arts degrees are letting people down, I feel that your nation has decided to strap lead weights and jump into the deep end.

STEM fetishization is Bad. its stupid, counter productive and creates a vastly toxic situation where now everyone has to go to college to get a STEM degree so that they can go on to become consultants.

If non-STEM inclined people start doing STEM, all you get is a huge demand for STEM and that follows with rising prices of premier institutions, dilution of degree value from anyone else and then a flood of McDonalds education institutions which prey on the weak.

On top of that it leads to unhealthy competition and student suicides as - well now you need to get great SAT scores before you count anywhere in the world.

I could go on, but I forget more points every time I remember one.

One of the things that you will realize was important once its gone, is people actually versed in history and softer study fields who can chime in discussions and provide things like good moral arguments.

If I asked someone here to defend free speech beyond the obvious first few feints and lunges, they'd fall.
The entire concept of an instantaneous launch window is pretty wild.
How would "pigovian taxes would be considered "government picking winners and losers" (specifically losers)."

I mean, it would be, only in the sense that "criminal justice system picks losers, by arresting people who commit crimes".
True, how cheap that the author is trying to take full credit as shown on his codepen example: /*
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Could you ask it here as well, for reference?
>> others were that special kind of lecturer who resonates really well with students but produces limited academic work.

Interesting. This is definitely in agreement with the point that many "[research]" universities exist for the research and not for learning/growth outcomes. If only a better solution existed...
Definitely! At the very least some labs where hackers could come and make stuff with Arduino boards or write IRC bots that did crazy, but useless things. All for the sake of learning.
>It's basic economics that the market fails to pick efficient winners and losers in industries that involve large negative externalities.

Real life is not so simple, as negative externalities can also be generated by legal frameworks such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability .

You need to examine the legal statutes governing each industry in question and develop measures of the ease at which claimants can receive compensation for damages to determine whether the observed externalities are intrinsic to the industrial process or whether the externalities are intrinsic to the legal process.
that is the hack....I know it's kinda stupid or awesome..depends how you look at it...but pixel by pixel..we can draw anything!
GM has paid back its loans and for the taxpayer to break even on the stock the government owns (~30%) it currently needs to about double.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2012/08/29/automaker...
Amazon and Steam work the same for me in Canada/Latin America - have to use a local card. That said, I've still been able to make some purchases without switching. I've long given trying to understand the nuances of it.
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The example doesn't work for me on Chrome stable, Win7. So looks like we need some markup.
I like Chrome, too. But I'm not ready to see Firefox abandoned. My hope is that the demo projects I've seen here are just bleeding-edge experiments that people were too excited about sharing to bother with the grunt work of browser compatibility.
1. It doesn't pay much. The people it employs are engineers who did not get jobs in software companies.

2. No. More often than not, students end up doing projects "suggested" by these project-making companies. They already have a bunch of "Student Database Management System" and "Hospital Record Management System" projects lying around which they rehash.

3. This already happens to an extent. People who work in these low paying jobs end up getting some experience and move onto better paying jobs. But like I said in (2) above, what they get to do are hardly any fun stuff
Fantastic!

What the hell does it do? I'm not signing up without knowing a single thing about this service.
For that to succeed you need to ensure technical folks getting hired are very well compensated.

The issue is most people coming from middle class background have big dreams to make money, build a good home and settle down. So the crowd goes where the money is.

Sure there are going to be passionate people, but if its not rewarding sooner or later they are going ask if its worth it.
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